Florence and the Machine

Leading lady Florence Welch gave nothing but goddess vibes when she hit the Auckland stage, even sneaking out for a surprise duet with warm-up act King Princess ...

“I’ve had a lot of time to think about what it means to me, about what songwriting means and basically what it has done for me, is anything that I thought was too sad or too broken, too shameful, if I put it in a song, even if I then thought that the song was too sad to sing, what you do is you kept it safe for me and you loved it until I was ready to sing it again.” “Is it a cult, am I safe? All I can say is if you’re out there and feeling a little apprehensive... “And because this is the last one I want you to give me f***ing everything that you got,” she rallied fans near the end of their set. During Morning Elvis, a song Welch said she wrote in this time when she wondered if live shows would ever return, she led the crowd as they waved their arms to the rhythm. Last night she said she and her Machine were going to give their everything, and to those who had never attended one of their concerts, she reassured, would be “absolutely fine”.